Brisbane Blacks Chords by Mop & The Dropouts

_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ On TV I saw a story [Am] _ of the Brisbane _ Blacks, [D] a story that is touching, _ [C] a story that [G] is right.
_ _ In the story a group of people [Am] _ sitting in a park, _ _ [D] _ _ drinking in harmony, _ [C] drinking until [G] dark. _ _ _ _ _
[C] You wonder _ _ [D] why _ [G] they're like that, _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ those [D] so-called [G] drunken blacks, _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] they know [D] that _ they've done
[G] no wrong, _ [Em] _ _ _
[C] but the pressure from [D] _ society _
[G] is strong. _ _ _ _ _
Every day, each passing day, [Am] our culture slowly _ dies, _
[D] like a piece of paper _
[C] thrown onto [G] a fire. _
Now all we've got is ancient [Am] weapons, now is our only trade, _ _
[D] compared to all the _ immigrants,
[C] look how much [G] we've made. _ _
_ _ _ [C] You look down through [D] your _ noses [G] to see, _ _ _ _ _ [C] the black men [D] groveling down at [G] your feet, _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] with
weary _ [Dm] eyes looking up [G] at you, _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [C] waiting for [D] the message to [G] get through. _
_ _ _ _ Now it's time for them to sleep, [Am] and it's not in a bed, [E] _ _ [D] but in some warm _ surroundings,
[C] in a bath or in [G] a shed.
_ _ _ _ Warmed only [Em] by the blood [Am] that he drank through the day, _ _ [D] _ _ warmed only by the blood, [C] the killer
of [G] evening. _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] The very _ [D] first _ _ [G] Australians around, _ _ _ _ _ [Em]
[C] the very _ [D] first people to [G] be down.
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm]
[C] And why we fight, [D] is to be [G] recognized, _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Em] _ _
[C] only to be [D] felled by your [G] blind eyes, _ _ _ _ [A] yes, only
to be [D] felled by your [G] blind [C] eyes.
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